Telekinesis announces new album & tour, releases new song

Seattle’s Telekinesis, the stage name for Michael Benjamin Lerner, will release a new album called Dormarion on April 2nd via Merge Records. Lerner wrote the 12 songs that make up the album with the intention to record them on his own. Instead, he made the record over two weeks with Spoon drummer and producer Jim Eno (Polica, Heartless Bastards, Black Joe Lewis) at Public Hi-Fi studio in Austin (on Dormarion Lane). The press release explains further:

So there’s two drummers, and no one else, collaborating shoulder-to-shoulder on a musically adventurous album containing two centerpiece songs on which there are no drums whatsoever. The breakthrough, musically and otherwise, came with the eighth song written for the record, “Ghosts and Creatures,” a keyboard-driven, spacey, and darn near Goth turn that marks a conscious departure from his guitar-bass-drums power-pop racket. “That was the most unlike-me song I’d ever written.”

Along with the album announcement comes a new song, “Ghosts and Creatures,” and a list of a list of new tour dates, including a stop in Philly at Johnny Brenda’s on May 7th. On stage, Lerner will be backed by Erik Walters of The Globes on guitar, Say Hi’s Eric Elbogen on bass, and Rebecca Cole of Wild Flag and The Minders on keyboards. Tickets for the show at JB’s will go on sale this Friday at noon via TicketFly. Full tour dates and a stream of the new song are below. You can pre-order Dormarionhere.